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  Just because some western people don't adapt doesn't make it ok. How arrogant is that? Westerners are abusing their host culture, so let everyone do the same here? When in Rome applies across the board, but let's not get carried away: we don't have to "convert" or lose our faiths or eat humble pie, and nor do the people living here who have come from elsewhere - When in Rome simply means respecting the host culture and not expecting it to bend to your own. For years I lived in London with such a lovely vibrant multi-cultural social life, and it rarely went bad. Because, mainly, people who arrived here respected that fact: they had come in from elsewhere. No-one expected them (us - I was an irish catholic) to become CofE or Jewish, or Druid or anything else, but we were expected to respect the host culture even while retaining our own. It worked because we all just got on with it. Now, if that doesn't happen elsewhere, that doesn't make it ok to tolerate bad behaviour here.

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